“Tragedy of the Commons”: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age
The Threat to Civil Liberties and Innovation Posed by Expanding Copyrights
By Robin D. Gross, Esq.
IP Justice Executive Director
www.ipjustice.org
Published by MIT Press, 2006

0. Introduction
As we enter an information age, the rules governing the use and dissemination of information become increasingly important. Clashes between fundamental freedom […]

Circumvention Prohibitions Reconsidered:
Why America’s Mistake is Europe’s Future
By Robin D. Gross, IP Justice
I. US and EU Pressured to Outlaw Consumer Circumvention
Today lawmakers all over the world are both dreaming of the opportunities and grappling with the challenges that digital technology creates for authors and distributors of intellectual property. At the same time, consumers express excitement […]

Leaked EU document revealing that Brazil and India urge re-evaluation of international intellectual property rights regimes because TRIPS is too unbalanced against developing nations.Â Developing nations’ concerns were left out of the final official WSIS documents, however.